October 4 2010

First class on Rochester: Range of his poetry, his songs, his satire against reason and mankind; reflections on libertinage and philosophy; reflections on the skills that make a poem great: line, transition; architectonic. Dryden great at all three; Rochester extremely good at the first two.

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